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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag strikes near L’Esperance Rock in New Zealand

Posted by admin on June 20, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -31.0062S, -177.3589WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 154 km ENE of L’Esperance Rock, New Zealand (96 miles). The temblor was detected at 09:45:06 / 9:45 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/06/19 / 2019-06-20 21:45:06 / June 20, 2019 @ 9:45 pm. Unique identifier: us600043ya. Ids that are associated to the event: us600043ya. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -177.3589 West, latitude -31.0062 South, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days thirty-two, in the past 30 days thirty-two and in the last 365 days seventy-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 154 km ENE of L’Esperance Rock, New Zealand. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.3589° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -31.0062° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 154km ENE of L'Esperance Rock, New Zealand Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-06-20 21:45:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-20 22:05:23 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -720 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 400 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.823 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 75 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us600043ya Id of event.
Event Code 600043ya An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600043ya, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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